Full-Time Fee-For-Service + Benefits Licensed or Limited Permit Psychotherapist
**** Please include cover letter and resume or application will be closed. You will be asked to do a video interview after you submit your application. If you do not complete the video interview, your application will be closed.
Note: We are targeting a start date of May/June
Company Mission Statement
Here, at Roots & Branches Therapy, we feel it is a privilege to bear witness to the story of your roots as you branch out towards your goals. We endeavor to serve a diverse client base providing insight, empathy, honest feedback, and tools to help you overcome obstacles and difficult circumstances. We utilize evidence-based treatments, and our team of skillful practitioners is diligent in their own continuous professional development to serve you better. Our mission is to empower our clients to courageously pursue lives of genuine connection, professional fulfillment, wonderous adventure and mindful acceptance.
Requirements
- Must be a licensed mental health professional and/or a candidate for limited permit sponsorship
- Willing to commute to Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn
- Flexibility and excitement about being part of our team
- Humor and grace about the inevitable obstacles and missteps we will face together as a growing small business
- Willingness to practice Individual, Group and Couples Therapy
- Willingness to be vulnerable, introspective, and open to examining your biases in biweekly individual supervision and biweekly group supervision
- Excitement about engaging in professional development opportunities
Preferred Candidate Characteristics/Experience
We seek to hire a team that is diverse in life experience, identity, and in theoretical orientation so that we can all learn from each other. Look at our team on our website and include in your cover letter or video what point of diversity you can offer to the team. We are particularly interested in folks who might bring the following specialization/experience:
- LGBTQIA+
- Bilingual: Spanish
While we value your diverse clinical skills and all practice eclectically, the ideal candidate would be interested in supervision and practice that is trauma and attachment focused, and would be interested in learning Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills as those are our points of unification.
Compensation & Responsibilities
Payroll is biweekly on Friday, and the fee-for-service rate starts at $35/per session ($30 for the session and $5 for timely completed documentation) and is as high as $45/session based on experience. Therapists must be available for a minimum of 33 hours of scheduled hours of work per week (with no more than 8 clients scheduled in a day), including a minimum of:
- 32 hours with clients
- 1 hour of supervision (alternating weeks individual and group)
- 8 weekend in-person daytime hours (specific day based on office availability)
- 1 weeknights in-person shift (1-9pm, specific day based on office availability)
- 1 weeknights telehealth shift (1-9pm, your choice of days)
- 1 weeknight or early AM telehealth shift (7-3, 11-7, or 1-9, your choice of days)
Currently, it's required that each therapist work 2 days in-person and 2 days virtually. If the NY state law requiring insurance companies to offer parity of pay for in-person and virtual client sessions expires in 2024, Roots and Branches Therapy may require that all clinicians begin to work in-person at that time.
This rate includes the following out-of-session responsibilities:
- Entry of notes by end of each payroll period
- Entry of biopsychosocials and treatment plans within 1 month of initial session
- Review assessments and data to administrative staff
- Support in the event of a chargeback or audit
- Communication with administrative staff regarding. client’s scheduling, rescheduling, an attendance/missed appointments; updates to client’s health insurance, patient queries
Opening/closing office procedures like:
- Turning-on/off lights, fans/air purifiers, air conditioners, oil diffusers
- Putting out/prepping beverage dispensers and glasses for clients
- Loading/running dishwasher
- Cleaning-up after yourself in common areas and practice rooms
- Locking office
- Ad-hoc routine office maintenance, such as: refilling tissue boxes/toilet paper, changing lightbulbs, putting batteries in clocks, cleaning-up spills
Benefits
Clinical Supervision (for credit towards full licensure)
- Bi-weekly individual supervision
- Bi-weekly group supervision
The below benefits available are dependent on PEO offering and therefore might change from year to year, at this time the following are currently available:
Health Benefits active after reaching 30 client session hours:
- Medical benefits current employee cost: $0.70 - $184.87/ month dependent on plan
- Vision benefits current employee cost: $4.14- $7.43/month depending on the plan)
- Dental benefits (no cost to employee)
- 401K Plan with 4% matching
Other benefits, active upon first payroll:
- Commuter Benefits (pre-tax deducted from employee gross pay)
- Citi bike (fully subsidized by employer)
- Discount Class Pass (partially subsidized by employer)
- Short-Term Disability (fully subsidized by employer)
- Long-Term Disability (employee paid)
- Life Insurance (fully subsidized by employer)
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment (fully subsidized by employer)
Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Sick Time: paid as per NY State law
- General PTO, after 3 months of service: 2 weeks paid/2 weeks unpaid
- General PTO, after 1 year of service, 3 weeks paid/1 week unpaid
- General PTO, after 2 years of service, 4 weeks of paid vacation
Note: General PTO is based on average hours worked in the past 8 weeks or 4 pay periods
Reviews
Quarterly informal mutual feedback will occur during supervision to address employee performance and employee’s job satisfaction. Roots & Branches therapy is committed to annual review and compensation increases ($5/year with meets expectation review up to a current cap of $50/session). Compensation can also be reviewed if employees reach full licensure between review periods.
Company Equipment
We are asking that you use your own laptop and cell phone, which must have basic encryption. We provide Ipads in office for notetaking and emergency use if you forget your laptop.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $35.00 - $45.00 per hour
Expected hours: 33 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
Work setting:
- In-person
- Office
- Private practice
- Telehealth
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Ability to Relocate:
- Brooklyn, NY 11238: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person